单词 | superiority complex |
释义 | > as lemmassuperiority complex superiority complex n. originally Psychology an attitude of superiority which conceals actual feelings of inferiority and failure; (hence, in extended and general use) an exaggerated sense of superiority.Cf. inferiority complex n. at inferiority n. Compounds. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > pretension to superiority > [noun] pensifulnessc1450 affectation1548 affection1570 affectedness1622 lady aira1637 fastuousness1649 gentility1650 fastuosity1656 vapouring1656 flatulency1662 hoity-toity1668 pretendingness1701 with an air1701 pretension1706 flatulence1711 uppishness1716 high and mightiness1771 pensieness1825 fine-gentlemanism1831 pretentiousness1838 ambitiousness1845 stuckupishness1853 pretensiveness1859 notion1866 side1870 dog1871 hoity-toityism1881 superiority complex1921 snootiness1932 uppitiness1935 snottiness1973 snoot1984 swag2002 the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > other mental illnesses neurosis1783 mutism1824 Americanitis1882 lata1884 miryachit1884 negativism1892 obsession1892 ressentiment1896 resentment1899 pseudologia1903 echopraxia1904 complex1907 pseudo-homosexuality1908 regression1910 kleptolagnia1917 sadomasochism1919 poriomania1921 superiority complex1921 martyr complex1926 rejection1931 nemesism1938 acting out1945 catathymia1949 elective mutism1950 psychosyndrome1965 panic attack1966 Munchausen syndrome by proxy1977 Polle syndrome1977 panic disorder1978 chronic factitious disorder1980 bigorexia1985 fabricated or induced illness1994 selective mutism1999 1921 Columbia Law Rev. 21 613 His work would have been more effective..if he had given us..an analysis also of the correlated psychology of those subordinated classes whose ‘inferiority complex’ is as characteristic as the superiority complex of the exploiters. 1926 Amer. Speech 1 321/2 Let those sciences..which are suffering from a superiority complex, marshal an array of such learned expressions as [etc.]. 1934 Mod. Psychologist June 17/1 When this anything is smeared over..with a lot of twaddle concerning sexual starvation,..frustration, or inferiority or superiority complexes, the tender-minded neurotic swallows the whole thing. 1945 A. L. Rowse Eng. Spirit xxxiii. 232 The English have a singular faculty for depreciating their great men. (Is it perhaps a form of superiority-complex?) 1979 Nature 11 Oct. 424/2 The Egyptian scientific community does not like or agree with the Israeli superiority complex. 2010 Sunday Times (Nexis) 25 Apr. 42 [His] attitude to anyone who disagrees smacks of a prickly superiority complex. He knows best. < as lemmas |
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